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What's your favorite rejected ALIEN 3 script?

Aquehonga

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I've only read 2 so far.

The 2 scripts I read were William Gibson's & D.T. Twohy's.

Gibson's was very interesting, but...., & Twohy's was bold yet.........

How many rejected scripts were there for ALIEN 3?
I intend on reading ALL of them.

I liked both Gibson's & Twohy's scripts better than the final canon ALIEN 3 we have now. Despite that I have problems with Gibson's & Twohy's scripts.

Something about Gibson's take or direction with the ALIEN(s) lifecycle irks me a little bit as well as there being "no" Ripley in Gibson's script.

Twohy's script was very exciting & willing to take chances with completely new characters. But, I think it was set too close to Earth.

The setting should've been a Martian moon, the Asteroid Belt, or maybe Mercury. Plus, Twohy's script made an essentially useless reference to past films, which if you sneezed you'd miss it.

Well, that's my 3 cents.

What's YOUR favorite rejected Alien 3 script?

Which unused Alien 3 scripts would you recommend?
 
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If you want to discuss rejected scripts, for a movie made many years ago, it would help if you provided a link for us to inform ourselves with first...
 
The Vincent Ward story with the King Alien was the best out of all of them.
I was really impressed with Ward's script. It was... poetic, in ways that screenplays usually aren't.

I thought Gibson's script was okay. Had it been made, it wouldn't have aged well; it was too much of a Cold War allegory, and that would have dated not long after the film's release.

Twohy's script turned into Pitch Black.
 
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